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So when does the stretch begin ? (you need two extra seats for the kitty cats...)

Fuck that. I'll find out what it is one day when it sends a rod through the case after I try to pass a nissan tiida (insert any other typically slowly driven modern car) on a slight downhill using gravity to aid punching the Bedford beyond its normal safe working speed.

Goddammit- wtf!???? So its not in the name...? Anyway- our 'silvertoppedblacktop' has the vac pump on the back of the alternator. Riddlemethatbarryboy.

I'll have another look and get back to you. But I've been told that silver tops had twin filters when used in commercials

Yeah I've done all of the various tricks etc and it still struggles at really low settings. Plus its hard to get it to stay at the chosen low amps. After speaking to the importer plus a few other owners of the same machine it is a problem. I very rarely use the full grunt of the machine either but it's handy when I need it and it works great for alloy tig.

I too need to get another tig. My ac/dc machine is fantastic for most welding but not very smooth on really light settings to weld thin steel/stainless - its just not designed for that. I fancy a small dc tig with a nice lightweight compact torch and shall invest soon. Those strata welders are also specced and imported by Proline I think.

That is a fucking good price. I've a weldtech mig- not quite so flash as that (not blingy lcd screen- just two knobs) Same as what @ThePog has (the welder that is - not the fact Dylan only has two knobs...in fact I believe he only has one and its not that impressive - or at least that's what @sidewaysickness mum said) Its been great and has done a huge amount of work for our business. Fantastic on car panels- very smooth (even with poverty spec co2) Greg at proline welding in Nelson is the owner/importer of weldtech. Good dude has great back up service.

Cheers- I'll get to know more about the condition of the engine once we clock up some miles on it. I was just wondering if there was any tell tale signs to look for but its all internal so not much to look at eh. Our engine has two filters (115 and a 416) is that usual for the silver tops out of safaris or more of a commercial thing?

Other than stripping a pump down is there any way that one can check the condition of a pump while still attached to the engine? Our td42 seems fine but for what I think is one tappet that needs closing up a bit. Pulls well, doesn't smoke. I guess run it for a few months and gauge the fuel/oil usage first?

Please paint us a picture of what this guy looked like. I'm picturing a 40-50 something Barry with either a Ford logo'd cap or a cowboy hat sitting proudly atop a very fine looking mullet indeed. Did he suck wind through his teeth as he was under your truck and then pop his head out and excitedly tell you the news which he had hoped would fuck up your day - all because he is just one of those cunts who are so super jealous that they can't create such lovely vehicles themselves so they just have to knock other peoples efforts instead?

I'm keen on any spare 12a rotor for my shed too- to fill my empty 12a housing on the shelf.

Will you be looking to convert it to a manual in the future?

Another typically fun few updates to catch up on. Just read them and Hannah was reading it too and we both giggled with delight when your car started and your girlface started giggling. Its such a cool thing when an engine starts for the first time and this can only be bloody amazing considering you're both new fresh barrys to the world of shitty old car tinkering. Congrats from us! Keep the great updates coming!

Yingyang. You'll head away with a truck filled with as much shit as you sold. And so continues the oldschool circle of life.

We at oldschool see no problem with a line up of projects to do one day....

Crikey- the esky too. #sadface. I was looking forward to seeing what you'd make that into.

Wow- ya sold it! Just like that. I hope its gone to a good home and they appreciate the fucking awesome job you did at restoring this wee gem. Thanks for sharing a great thread with us all! Looking forward to more mk1 esky updates- especially the bit when you finally fit a 12a drillport.

Yesterday afternoon I got to make use of the truck when we helped the neighbours do the hay. Every year we and a few other local farmers help them out with the hay and then we all get pissed and eat way more food than one should. Always a grand afternoon out Its been noted that flat deck farm utes suitable for hay are getting less common around these parts so they are super stoked we now have this truck...

More little jobs completed on the TK over the last week in between other stuff (like apparently one has to earn money to pay for mortgages etc = boring! ) The battery cradles needed attention. In fact they needed removing full stop. They were both right in the way of getting easy access to the passenger side of the engine. Plus they were a bit higgledy piggledy (thanks to Hannah's mum for teaching me such delightful technical words) because the truck was originally 12V and then later converted to 24v to suit the mighty Nissan donk and hence two separate cradles were in place... Hannah removed them both, having to cut bits off that had been farmer welded to the deck. While she was having fun under the truck I was cutting a million and one bits of stainless steel box section for a customers job. I think she was having more fun. Once out of the way we measured up the batteries and designed a new cradle to suit some existing holes already in the chassis. I used various bit of angle iron left over from jobs and made this... Once in place I went through all the battery leads we had, between what was on the truck and what I had squirrelled away over the years. Much neater, shorter runs were tied up in place with extensive use of that flexi conduit stuff because I'm always a little paranoid of battery cables rubbing and becoming arc welders. Finished result is much neater and now well out of the way... Happy with that. Next job was the ugly plastic header tank and the cobbled together brackets. It had been mounted too far out from the cab and hence in the way. Brackets to remove... New header tank in metal, rescued from the field ridden parts truck now fitted in place... I had to cobble together some new coolant pipe work to suit using a pipe rescued from a Caddilac northstar engine of all places. New tank looks much better. It also leaks. Great. Its just a pin hole in a soldered seam so I'll have to use my very best soldering skills to make it worse. Then give it to the radiator man to fix properly. Also. There was a big Bedford badge on the front. Neither of us like that badge. Not as nice as the later smaller ones. In fact I think it'll look better without. So I welded up the holes. Not sure why there was a huge round hole behind the badge? Maybe a drain for the dipping process the cabs go through? I found an appropriate sized holesaw, cut a disc from some sheet and welded it in. Took it slowly so the panel didn't buckle but panel was nice and beefy steel anyway. Sky was pretty last night. Neat light. Took a photo of the truck, Impy and Minky peeking out from behind... Minky and impy are currently parked in the space left by the last housetruck. Enjoy that while it lasts... This afternoon Hannah had another fun bit of time under the truck cleaning all the old grease etc from the steering box and pedal area. She's so lucky I gift her these jobs instead of hogging them for myself... Then this evening I moved the truck into roughly the parking spot it'll reside on once it has a house on it... Heaps of room to play with. Nice to start having an idea of how the new house design will work in with the land there. It'll be great that it will be so easy to move the truck in and out from under the house and continue to use it for work (or to take it to vintage rallys/A&P shows and really upset the Barrys with its Japanese motor... ) We have decided to just crack on with a cab re-paint asap and also build a new deck as planned before we take it for its next cof. Looking forward to seeing the faces of the testing station that know the truck so well when we turn up with it all cleaned up and shiny like But a bit more work on the mezzanine floor needs to be done before getting too excited about truck restos !

Yeah Its looking good man- Good work on the welding. I always like seeing an update on this thread!

Sweet. I need to get some of that sounds deadening mat too. Might go shopping

Yeah I bet I can flick off some sheep piss infused decking, rat piss carpet, flogged out but completely genuine cast in england brake arms and authentic rusted out steel and plastic bedford mudguards to some barry foamer... I'll be there!

I buy controller off you. give you monies i do. Five dollar. Buy now. I buy. You controller you not need. I buy.

That is good service. I think I'll be getting one of them thank you please. Is the chinese bosch sensor still going ok?